United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Governmenal body
- Osha Training Institute. Schedule and registration instructions, 1990:p. 1 (U.S. Department of Labor, Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health)
- Its Cuando un cliente habla, OSHA escucha, 1995:p. 1 (Departamento del Trabajo de los EE.UU., Administración para la Seguridad y Salud Ocupacionales)
- Employer rights and responsibilities following an OSHA inspection. Spanish. Derechos y responsabilidades del empleador tras una inspección de OSHA, 2003:t.p. (Administración de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacionales)
- La violencia en el lugar de trabajo, 2002:PDF file, p. 2 (Departamento de Trabajo de los EE.UU., Administración de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional)
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA; ) is a regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces.: 12, 16 The United States Congress established the agency under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act), which President Richard M. Nixon signed into law on December 29, 1970. OSHA's mission is to "assure safe and healthy working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance." The agency is also charged with enforcing a variety of whistleblower statutes and regulations. OSHA's workplace safety inspections have been shown to reduce injury rates and injury costs without adverse effects on employment, sales, credit ratings, or firm survival.
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